which will make the cost more affordable for you…Polygon Betterhelp… general and after that based on your answers to your concerns in the formerly mentioned survey they will match you with a therapist i’m going to utilize the words therapist and therapist interchangeably throughout this video but that’s not always the case and i think that much better help uses both types of mental health specialists so simply keep that in mind once they match you with your counselor you have the ability to talk with them and you can establish a time to have your first official meeting so it can either be through a video call through a regular phone call or through a chat or immediate message i constantly do video calls however it is good to know that all 4 choices 3 really to me but they state it’s four are available and i understand that’s definitely great for some people who are maybe a bit more anxious about therapy or not thinking about doing a video call since it makes them unpleasant when the day of your session comes you can either log into the web browser or log in to the mobile app you can’t do both at the same time only one at a time and after that you wait on your counselor to join and they will connect you to the session when they do a little bell ring and after that you’re ready to go and you can begin having your your conference throughout your very first session you’re probably going to have just a be familiar with you kind of session to figure out why are you interested in treatment what things do you wish to address what are your preferences as somebody attending treatment what are your counselors preferences and what’s their style of therapy all of those things will probably get hashed out in the first conference and then with time you’ll get more comfy with one another and you’ll have more of those like much deeper
sessions where you can speak about your problems and whatever it is that you wish to resolve and then as time goes on you’ll have sessions nevertheless you spent for it or nevertheless you set it up with your counselor so with my therapist in particular i think this does vary by counselor however we do weekly sessions for one hour and i pay 35 dollars a week broken down however i have actually paid for all of my sessions ahead of time to get that cheaper rate so let’s move on to the pros and the cons of the platform i think one of the biggest pros of better help is that it is an online therapy service which makes it extremely hassle-free and very accessible for many people as long as you have an internet connection you can choose a range of various ways to meet your counselor so you can do text message video calls or telephone call they send you pointers about your consultation so it’s quite difficult to forget when you have a time set up they send you both e-mail pointers and text pointers and they send them to you a few days ahead and also a few hours ahead and a few minutes ahead so it’s a bit overkill but uh certainly effective and another cool thing about them having a digital platform is that they use digital group sessions and webinar type of sessions that are available to anyone who uses betterhelp entirely free of charge it’s at no extra cost to what you currently pay for your weekly sessions with your therapist now that being stated in my viewpoint the platform and the app is not great in fact it kind of draws particularly thinking about that much better aid in and of itself is a tool the item that they’re selling is this video platform that therapists can use to connect you to their network i suggest i guess they’re selling the network but i think really what they’re selling is the tool and it’s not an excellent one it’s quite clunky there are no choices for screen sharing Polygon Betterhelp
or messaging or chatting during a session photos are shared really oddly they’re shared as files and you can just send them separately so you can’t like drag and drop into a window or something you need to like browse select the photo then put it in and after that the individual can’t see a preview of the image they need to click into the file to see it it’s just really out-of-date small things like when you press enter in the chat window your messages do not send it actually develops a line break so